What is your Actual Fuel Efficiency?

This is a discussion on What is your Actual Fuel Efficiency? within The Indian Car Scene, part of the BHP India category; Originally Posted by gpa
Edit: trying to see what is the best FE without the aircon in the city!
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Edit: trying to see what is the best FE without the aircon in the city!

good job there mate. In your zest for getting good FE, you are indirectly saving oil.
Unfortunately, this'll help some poor obese american burn a lil more GAS next time he takes his guzzler of a truck on a drive to get ice cream.psychos these americans.

Mileage in my stock 2004 zen.
City: I don't even bother. And I'm not going to take any pains in finding out and depressing myself.
Highways: 17.5 at speeds in excess of which cannot be typed here.
For decent highway driving it should give 19-20kmpl.

1) Is this mileage good for a new Optra 1.6 LT under the driving conditions mentioned?

2) I have read that when driving distances are short - the car never reaches its optimal temprature which is why mileage for my daily office runs may be lower so therefore on long drives I may achieve even better mileage - Is this conclusion correct?

Ritz Vdi (1100 KM) - 100% with AC - First fill - 16.67 KMPL which included 380KM of highway driving. In the next fill, I got 13.67 for 100% city driving in Chennai with AC on all the time. Hoping for further improvement!!!

My new ANHC AT gives 9.5 in city and 12km/L is this the best an AT can deliver or am i driving bad? Members of AT please put your mileage figures here for comparison, more over, in high way i see an increase of 1km/l if i drive in sports mode using paddle shift these where figures i got while driving in city at average of 50km and 100km on highway.

My new ANHC AT gives 9.5 in city and 12km/L is this the best an AT can deliver or am i driving bad? Members of AT please put your mileage figures here for comparison, more over, in high way i see an increase of 1km/l if i drive in sports mode using paddle shift these where figures i got while driving in city at average of 50km and 100km on highway.

I have got upto 16.5 kmpl on my Civic-AT as maximum.
I have got 14 kmpl for my last 5,000 kms (I am congratulating myself!).

I believe this calculation is a bit flawed. The "available km reading" is only an estimate, which I think is based on the FE figure since the tripmeter was last reset (This is the case in the cars that I have seen; but I am not familiar with the Fabia, so I do not know if this is really the case here). Therefore an "available km reading" at the start of a highway trip (preceeded by city drive) and the same reading at the end of a highway trip signify different amounts of fuel left in the tank. What one should do is fill the tank at the end of the journey; total fuel usage is then this amount plus the 35.2 L filled earlier.

I had updated my earlier (two weeks ago) astronomically hight fuel efficiency (27+ in highwayy and 23.4 in combined to and fro) in my Linea MJD.

Last weekend I did 120-140 Kmph in the multilanes (most of the distance) overtaking everybody on the way and 80 Kmph in single lanes (average quality road) and it still gave me 18.3 Kmpl (three adults plus one child, full AC at 23 C, home to home). This probably completes my fuel efficiency testing on my car in various speeds and loads. I will stop bragging about my super mileage hereafter